Improved car-truck standards



w. F. ALTFATHER.

Car Truck Stake Holder. No. 59,337. Patented Nov. 6, I866.

Omo o e Witnesses= lnventon THO COAL! (OSBORNES PRDCESE) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

WILLIAM F. ALTFATHER, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED CAR-TRUCK STANDARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,337., dated November 6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. ALT

FATHER, of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Standard and Socket for Truck-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the stakes or standards and sockets used upon truck-cars or cars employed for freighting lumber, bark, and other bulky material, commonly carried upon platform or truck cars. The sockets which hold the stakes or standards are secured to the outside of the long bed timbers of the car, and standards are secured therein in such a manner as to allow them to stand firmly in a vertical position, or may be turned down by the side of the side pieces of the car, so as to be out of the way, and without any possibility of being lost or entirely removed from the socket.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1 will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a side board of a car raised out of the fastenings or sockets, which are represented upon the side of the bed-piece,' with my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is also the bed-timber of a car, upon which is shown the side board and standards in position, the sockets being shown partly in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional elevation of my improved standard and socket from the line as at. Fig. 4. is a bottom view of standard and socket, showing the manner by which the standard is secured in the socket.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

A represents the bed or long timber of a platform or truck car, of common construction, upon the outside of which are secured sockets a a. B is a side board that is used, when desired, and made so as to be removed when necessary. The side board is secured to the bed-timber A by means of bars 0 G being firmly secured to the side board, and passing through sockets e e secured to the bedtimber A, as shown in Fig. 2. These sockets before described, are secured to the bed-timber by means of staples n a passing in a groove around the socket and through the bed-timber A. D D are also sockets secured to the side boards 13 B in the manner before described. In this socket are fitted standards E E for the purpose of holding lumber or other bulky material upon the cars.

Near the lower end of the standard E is a bolt or pin, 20, that passes through the said standard, that projects to an equal distance upon each side of the standard. This bolt or pin 20 is made with a shoulder upon the inside of the standard, so that it cannot be removed from the standard, and the standard removed from the sockets. The said bolt or pin moves up and down in grooves 12 and f provided for the purpose in the inside of the sockets, and side boards made in such a manner as to pre- .vent the standard from coming out from the socket D, but is allowed to be raised to a point, so that the pin will come above the side of the socket, and the pin to the top of the groove, when the stake or standard E will turn down by the side of the side board B of the car, and be out of the way.

When it is desired to load lumber or other bulky material upon the carv the standards are raised in a vertical position, and let down into the sockets, where they are held firm in their place.

Any convenient number of these standards may be used upon each side of a car, thus having the standards always at hand, and saving the trouble and inconvenience and delays caused by other methods employed for this purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The sockets D and (0, provided with grooves f, in combination with the bed-timber A and side board B, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. The standard E provided with the pin or bolt w, in combination with the sockets D and a, substantially as herein shown and described.

WM. F. ALTFATHER.

Witnesses:

J OHN P. PRINGLE, CHAS. RUTLAND. 

